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Morphological study of the video games (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this article is first to present V.E.Ga.S., a tool which intend to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. It consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composition of elementary “game bricks”. Basing our study on this bricks and crossing them, we try to classify and study video games. In a second time, this paper presents the classification deduced from the results of V.E.Ga.S.Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Experimental Methods, Gameplay, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy
Le game design de jeux vidéo : Approches de l'expression vidéoludique (Book reference)
A scientific book that gathers contributions from 18 researchers who are studying different sides of videogames (design, use, interactivity, storytelling, emotions, gender, etc.).Keywords : science, humanities
Le ludo-éducatif : quelle déontologie dans la création des jeux ? (Broacasting our studies)
A round-table discussion on edutainment, focusing on ethical and deontological issues when creating games:What are the ethics involved in creating games?What are the risks? What are the safeguards?How do games and education interact?Keywords : Serious game, Video game, Ethics, Deontology, Design, Edutainment, Game design, Serious game design
Fundamentals of Game Design (Book reference)
A 700 pages introductory bible to the many concepts of Game Design. This book is an updated and revised edition of "Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design", and it's still divided in two parts. The first one is explaining the fundamental concepts of video game design: game design process, game mechanics, balancing, storytelling, characters, level design, etc. The second part of the book presents the main video game genres (action, adventure, simulation, sports, etc.) and their [...]Keywords : game design, introduction, genre, beginner
V.E.Ga.S.: A tool to study morphology of the video games (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this article is to present V.E.Ga.S tool, which intends to classify video games, study their nature and to corroborate hypothesis by a pragmatic approach. The approach has been inspired by the methodology of Vladimir Propp, who has classified Russian Tales at the time, as well as on the works and the "iterative" approach of the game designers Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. The approach consists in studying a significant number of video games in order to index their composit [...]Keywords : Classification, Game design, Video Games, Morphology, Taxonomy, Bricks, Experimental Methods
Etude morphologique des jeux vidéo (Broacasting our studies)
L’objet de cet article est de présenter un outil destiné à classer les jeux vidéo, étudier leur nature et corroborer des hypothèses par une approche pragmatique. L’approche suivie est de s’inspirer de la méthodologie de Vladimir Propp qui a servi à classer les contes russes en son temps, tout en nous appuyant sur les travaux et l’approche « itérative » des game designers Katie Salen et Er [...]Keywords : Classification, Bricks, Gameplay, Taxonomy, Video games
Video Games And Interactive Media: A Glimpse at New Digital Entertainment (Book reference)
A small book (150 pages) laying down a general introduction to the universe of videogames. The author details the history of videogames (with the contribution of the Le Diberder brothers and their "cycles theory" on this topic), the various jobs of the videogames industry and the process of game design, and in a last chapter try to analyze the future of videogames as a communicational tool. It's the English translation of a french book published in 2004 under the title "Jeux [...]Keywords : introduction, jobs, history, schools
The Game Design Reader - A Rules of Play Anthology (Book reference)
With nearly 1000 pages, this heavy book was baked for you by two of best videogames researchers. I gathers many articles that anyone serious about the study of games must (or at least should) have read. The articles gathers are quite different, ranging from scientific essays about the definition of videogames (Huinzingua, Caillois, Suits, etc.) to players gaming diaries and professional game developers postmortems (Valve Software on how they created Half-Life, Lucasart on their pioneering MMO &q [...]Keywords : research, game studies, history, definition
Austin Story (Student project)
A videogame project involving a flying ferret, which is controled in an innovative way trough mouse inputs (Game Design documents).Keywords : mouse
Gam.B.A.S. (Our projects)
Following the videogame classification project, Gam.B.A.S is a research project aimed to study the deep nature of videogames through formal deconstruction of their inner structure. Gam.B.A.S. - Prototype #1 The first step of this ongoing project is to try to provide answer to the following question: What is gameplay? Demonstation videos of the two prototypes created (2007): Publications related to this project Many analysis have yet to be done, [...]Keywords : game design, game creation software